Combined grain-door strop and side-door-post protector



Aug. 28, 1928. 1,682,281

5. L. JOINER COMBINED GRAIN DOOR STRIP AND SIDE DOOR POST PROTECTOR Filed March 5, 1927 Patented Aug. 28, 1928.

SYLVESTER L. JOIN'ER, 0F MOGREGOR, TEXAS.

COMBINED GRAIN-DOOR STRIP AND SIDE-DOOR-POST PROTECTQR.

' Application filed March 5, 1927. Serial Ito/173,126.

The invention relates to a combined grain door strip and side door post protector.

The object'of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical and. efiicient combined grain door strip and side door post protector of strong and durable construction adapted to be readily and cheaply manu-' factured and quickly assembled and applied to a box car interiorly thereof at opposite sides of the door opening to protect t e side post of the box car and to support a wooden strip in position for enabling the boards of a grain door to be secured to it without the nails, or other fastening means penetrating and injurin the side post of the car.

Another 0 ject of the invention is to provide a combined grain door strip and door post rotector adapted to last the full life of a $30K car and capable of enabling the Wooden strip which receives the fastening devices of the grain door to be readily removed and replaced 'by a new strip when necessary and capable of supporting and bracin the wooden strip at opposite sides thereo and of enabling a wooden strip to last for a considerable length of time so that it will not be necessary to renew the strip until the box car is overhauled or rebuilt.

The invention also has for its object .to provide a grain door strip and door 0st protector adapted to serve as a shiel or protection to prevent the hand trucks which are employed for loading and unloading the car from coming in contact with and cutting or otherwise injuring the wooden door post of the car and which will at the same time present rounded surfaces at the corners for contact with the hand trucks or other objects.

Wi h these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without defparting from the s irit or sacrificing any 0 the advantages of? the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1' is a longitudinal sectional view of a. rtion of a car provided with a combin grain door strip and side door post protector constructed in accordance with this invention. 7

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view of one end of the combined grain door strip and side door 0st protector, the filler strip being omitted or convenience of illustration.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a port1on of a car provided with a combined grain door strip and side door post protector and illustrating another form of the invention.

' Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective View of a portion of the combined grain door strip and side door post protector, the woodon post being omitted for illustrating the sidebars more clearly.

Fig. 5 is atransverse sectional view of the device illustrating the manner of clamping and supporting the wooden filler strip shown in Fig. 3.

Referring particularly to Fi 1 and 2. of the accompanying drawing t e combined grain door strip and side post rotector consists of a pair of metallic side are 1 located at opposite sides of and bracing and supporting a wood filler strip 2 and the said side bars 1 which form a metallic housing for the wood filler strip consist of angle bars hav ing webs or flanges arran ed at right angles to each other and rounded at their outer edges at the outer faces of the webs or flanges at 3 and 1 to present smooth surfaces to a hand truck or other object to prevent thesame from catching on the combined grain door strip and side door post protector and injuring the same or being marred or otherwise injured b the device through such contact. The si ebars 1 are arranged withtheir flanges 5 in parallelism at spaced relation to provide an intervening space fon the reception of the wood filler strip which in the form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing is secured in position between the side bars by transverse bolts 6 piercing the flanges 5 and the Wood filler strip and arranged at suitable intervals as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawing. Any number of the transverse bolts 6 may of course be employed and the other flan s 7 of the angle side bars extend laterally mm the flan es 5 and are fitted against the door post 0 the car 10 and are secured to the latter b 7 wood screws- 8 having flat heads oountersunfl in openings 9 in the flanges 7 of the side bars. The screws 8 are arranged at suitable intervals and any desired number may be employed. The bolts 6 and the screws 8 are readily removable and the wood filler strip may be easily and quickly removed and replaced by a new filler strip when necessary. The boards 10 for constituting the ain door are secured to the wood filler strip i; nails 10 or other suitable fastenin devices in the usual manner as clearl ilustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

In igs. 3 to 5 inclusive is illustrated another form of the invention in which the combined grain door strip and side door post protector is composed of spaced angle bars 11 and an interposed wood filler strip 12. The angle bars 11 which have. webs or flanges arranged at right angles to each other are spaced apart to provide an inter vening space for the wood filler strip '12 and the flanges 13 which are arranged in parallelism and which present flat surfaces to the sides of the wood filler strip are provided at their outer longitudinal edges with inwardly extendjng overhanging ribs or flanges 14 which extend over the mar 'nal portions of the wood filler strip and. t in correspondin longitudinal recesses 15 thereof whereby t e wood filler strip is securely fastened in position when the side bars 11 are secured to the car 16. The side bars 11 are rounded exteriorly at the outer edges of their webs or flanges 13 and 17 at 18 and 19 to present smooth exterior faces at the edges of the side bars to revent hand trucks and other objects whic may come in contact with the combined grain door strip and side door post protector from being marred or otherwise injured by the device of the present invention and also to avoid in'ury to the said device. The flanges 17 w ich extend laterally from the flanges 13 are fitted flat against the door post of the car 16 and are secured to the same by wood screws 20 which are arranged in countersunk openin 21 in the webs or flanges 17. The over anging ribs formed by extending the flanges 13 inwardly obviate the necessity of emplo g transverse bolts for securing the wood tiller stri between the side bars and the avoid piercin the wood filler strips or the said bolts. ile the outer portion of the wood filler strip 12 is reduced in width by the recesses 15 the metallic ribs fill the recesses and brace and support the said strip-12 adjacent the outer face of the same. This construction also enables the filler strip 12 to be readily removed and replaced by a new filler strip when required. The angle also my hand.

bars which form the sides and constitute the metallic housing for the wood filler strips and the said filler strips may be made of any required dimensions. The wood filler strip is adapted to receive fastening devices 22 of webs over the intervening space between the angle bars the other web of each bar forming an attachin portion, and a wood filler stri arranged between the angle bars and co ned in the space between the same by the said longitudinal flanges, the sectional metallic housing permittin ready removal and re lacement of the woo filler strip, said Wood ller strip being provided at its outer portion with side marginal recesses receiving the longitudinal flanges of the angle bars and forming a reduced intermediate portion arran ed in flush relationwith the outer faces 0% the flanges, said angle side bars bein rounded exteriorly at the outer edges of 0th of the webs to form rounded exterior surfaces at the corners of the combined grain door strip and side post protector and at the attaching portions thereof.

2. A combined grain door strip'and side door post protectorlocated interiorly of the car at the side of the door openlng and comprising a sectional metallic housin comlposed of spaced relatively heavy ang e bars aving angularly related webs, a wood filler strip arrangedbetween and filling the s aoe between the angle bars and adapte to receive the fastening devices for securing a grain door to the car, and means carried by the webs of the angle bars for securing the latter to the car and for holdin the filler strip in position between the angfle bars the sectional metallic housing permitting the ready removal and re lacement of the wood filler strip, said ang e bars being rounded exteriorly at the outer? edges to present rounded surfaces at the corners of the combined grain door strip and side door post protector.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set srLvssrnR L. Jonma.

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